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Jack-in-the-green
1. A man or boy inclosed in a wooden or wicker pyramidal framework covered with leaves, in the May-day sports of chimney-sweepers, etc.
1801Strutt Sports & Past. iv. iii. §20 Jack in the Green..consists of a hollow frame of wood or wicker work, made in the form of a sugar loaf, but open at the bottom, and sufficiently large and high to receive a man..who dances with his companions. a1845Hood Sweep's Compl. 63. 1855 Dickens Dorrit i. xxi. 1895H. B. Wheatley Pepys' Diary VI. 296 note, The editor saw a jack-in-the-green with men dressed as milkmaids dancing round it on May 1st of the present year.
attrib.1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 529 The heads of his society..go out to meet him in their canoes, and bring him in his Jack-in-the-Green dress ashore.
2. ‘A variety of Primula vulgaris [the primrose], in which the calyx is transformed into leaves’ (Britten & Holland Eng. Plant-n.).
1876Gard. Chron. 8 Apr. 472. |